Abraham Verghese Quotes

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.

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You live it forward, but understand it backward.

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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by-by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

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God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

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Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.

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Being the first born gives you great patience.

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When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...

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Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or flea that lived on the bodies of men. If...there was a raising of the dead, then a child would be sure to see that its parents were awakened.

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A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world...

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Everyone needed an obsession.

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